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Keep Calm and Flutter On (January 19th 2013, 22 minutes)

Summary: Discord vs Fluttershy! Fight!

What's with the titles this season? This is in reference to 'Keep Calm and Carry On', a British poster from just before World War II that was rarely seen in the first place. It's well known now, because a couple were found recently, but at the time the series of posters had been discontinued before this one actually got posted.

So the lower end of their legs are shinable and are referred to as the hooves. On some stallions we can see that the hooves are distinct with 'feather' (the technical term for the long hair around the hoof), so we can infer that despite the art style all the ponies have distinct hooves. They just don't appear with the art style.

Those air chariots can take a substantial weight for cargo, if the Discord statue is in fact made of stone.

You may understand, but I'm not sure I do. Chocolate milk with whipped cream? That's a new one on me.

More evidence that Fluttershy's special ability is linguistics, specifically speaking animal languages. I wonder if that extends to other languages. For that matter, I wonder if other languages exist?

Reference to a Royal Summit. This one comes up later, in Equestria Girls, so I'm curious as to the frequency of these things.

The animation implies that the stone is just a shell over the real Discord.

And proof that Discord may have been inanimate, but he was still completely aware of everything going on around him. Not sure what the range was on that, though.

Twilight's trust in Celestia's protection spell is ... naïve.

Nice background detail. The whole area is flooding, and nobody notices.

The idea that Discord can be reformed means one of two things (or possibly both). 1) Discord is not actually an incarnation of primal Chaos so much as powerful entity that has embraced Chaos as their fundamental philosophy. As such he is as prone to Good and Evil as any other living being. 2) We're actually dealing with a triad style philosophy like the Celts and the Egyptians, with Order, Chaos, and Void being the three legs and Harmony being the balance between all three. Celestia represents Order, unchanging stability. Discord represents Chaos, with constant growth. And we don't have a representative for the Void, the force that destroys and makes room for more growth and stability.